Wobble



GRE 蓝宝

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v.动摇, 犹豫

Webster Collegiate

I. verb also wabble (wobbled; also wabbled; wobbling; also wabbling)

• Etymology: probably from Low German wabbeln; akin to Old English w?fre restless — more at waver
• Date: 1657
• intransitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to move or proceed with an irregular rocking or staggering motion or unsteadily and clumsily from side to side
    • b. tremble, quaver
  • 2. waver, vacillate
• transitive verb
  • to cause to wobble
• ? wobbler also wabbler noun
• ? wobbliness also wabbliness noun
• ? wobbly also wabbly adjective

II. noun also wabble

• Date: 1699
• 1.
  • a. a hobbling or rocking unequal motion (as of a wheel unevenly mounted)
  • b. an uncertainly directed movement
• 2. an intermittent variation (as in volume of sound)

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